skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iwantmydomain.com randomly refunded all of my domains and locked me out
This is a heads up to stay away from this shady company. Yesterday evening I saw a bunch of refund emails come through for every domain I hold with them. I tried to login to my account to see what was going on and I was locked out!

I checked a few of the websites using these domains and they were all down including my email addresses based on those domains. Even my personal domain I use for family email addresses is down and the whois shows ClientHold as the status.

I've always been in good standing with them and actually just purchased a couple more domains a few days ago with no issues. Those were refunded too!

I have an app and a consulting side business that are all inaccessible now and their support still hasn't responded. I wasn't aware of the recent itch.io fiasco until I started looking into issues with them last night. I never would have expected something like this happening. Like it's not just one domain but every single one I own!

This company obviously can't be trusted with anything your livelihood depends on.
It’s incredible how much time and political maneuvering it took Sam Altman to get to this point. He took on the entire board and research scientists for every major department and somehow came out the winner. This reads more like an announcement of victory than anything else. It means Sam won. He’s going to do away with the non-profit charade and accept the billions in investment to abandon the vision of AGI for everyone and become a commercial AI company.
> Start building nuclear power plants like it's 1950 and keep going like it's Fallout

Nuclear has a (much) higher levelized cost of energy than solar and wind (even if you include a few hours of battery storage) in many or most parts of the world.

Nuclear has been stagnant for ~two decades. The world has about the same installed nuclear capacity in 2024 as it had in 2004. Not in percent (i.e. “market share”) but in absolute numbers.

If you want energy generation cheap and fast, invest in renewables.
Seems completely nonsensical. Yes, neural networks themselves are not unit testable, modular, symbolic or verifiable. That’s why we have them produce code artifacts - which possess all those traits and can be reviewed by both humans and other machines. It’s completely analogous to human software engineers, who are unfortunately black boxes as well.

More broadly, I’ve learned to attach 0 credence to any conceptual argument that an approach will not lead somewhere interesting. The hit rate on these negative theories is atrocious, they are often motivated by impure reasons, and the downside is very asymmetric (who cares if you sidestep a boring path? yet how brutal is it to miss an easy and powerful solution?)
The "deep state" -- in the seminal J Edgar Hoover formulation -- is going to be cleaved by this issue. We can look back to 2015 when major American political parties' re-imagining of peace in Ukraine; deep state people fall on either side of that. Bolton is a "hawk", unwilling to pressure Ukraine but peddling in lives; Epsteyn is a "dove", framing Ukraine surrender as an overture to peace.
No SNI: https://web.archive.org/web/20241223150914if_/https://www.im...
I believe e.g. Ilya Sutskever believed AGI is in reach at the founding, and was in earnest about the reasons for the nonprofit. AFAICT the founders who still think that way all left.

It's not that the remainder want nonprofit ownership, it's that they can't legally just jettison it, they need a story how altering the deal is good actually.
On mobile I thought this thing was some ascii art game for a hot minute before I tried clicking on the download link. Seems silly to admit that but there you have it.
Isn't this the purpose of SPF/DKIM?

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/email-security/dmarc-dki...
> Employees on the inside are always going to have a decent percentage of “true believers” who have cognitive dissonance if they don’t believe they’re making the world better.

No, this is an artifact of insisting that people pretend to be true believers during interviews.

After I was fired from a position doing bug bounty triage on HackerOne, I applied to be a bug triager on HackerOne. And they rejected me, stating that my description of why I applied, "this is identical to the job I was already doing", didn't make them feel that I saw their company as a calling rather than a place of employment.
Simple tax optimization. Like new billionaires promising to significant donations. a) they don't have to donate. b) they can immediately slash those promised donations from taxes.
Sounds like something got lost in translating from digital to analog --- or vice versa.

This is just another example of how poorly the function of the human brain is understood.
The Russians / USSR have shot down six passenger aircraft resulting in partial or total loss of life.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_902

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_902

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007 (Killing US rep Larry McDonald.)

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812 (Purported that Russians coerced Ukraine to take the blame.)

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan_Airlines_Flight_824...
I'm talking about the current SOTA. In the future, all bets are off. For today, they are very capable when paired with a capable person, and that is how one uses them successfully today. Tomorrow will be different, of course.
> "If an an artificial person can do a job and make fewer mistakes than a real person, why not?"

The very simple answer to that is that the artificial person can’t do the full job of a person yet.

Being good or better at certain parts of a job does not mean it can do the whole job effectively.
Scary article. Revenue-based financing (RRB) already exists but Blue Owl and others are making bets on a large scale and at interest rates that are decoupled from actual risk. The PluralSight story is instructive: it looks like an obvious interest rate trap and it's hard to see where the backstop is when things start to unravel. I don't see how you can keep the contagion limited if you can't see the scope of risk and don't price it in correctly from the beginning.

Anyone who had accounts at SVB or First Republic will appreciate how quickly interest rate traps can go bad. At least there was a backstop in that case.

Edit: typo
Drones can capture much higher resolution images, and from very different angles, than satellites. Both are useful, and neither really replaces the other. A high-res composite image taken from multiple angles and exposures can confirm or refute what was just a hunch from satellite imagery alone.
Not that I necessarily disagree on the conclusion, but why should percentage of labor hours constitute a measure for general intelligence?
As much as I don't like the current rules either "I never got a notice until recently" is a very different thing than "It was fine until recently".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-balancing_scooter

Not the most popular, especially these days, but they are very much descended from Segways and have their own fans.
The DMCA does not obligate Youtube to do any of the claiming/strikes parts. They could straightforwardly separate out the two processes - a voluntary expedient web process with the contentid fingerprint arbitration, one-click immediate counterclaim, no need to dox yourself, etc. And then a heavyweight strict DMCA process that fulfills DMCA obligations to the letter of the [unjust] law, requiring the waiting period for restoration after the counterclaimant doxes themselves, but doesn't drag in all the extrajudicial "strikes" and whatnot. The filing of a heavyweight DMCA would forgo the option for the voluntary nimble process.

Of course there are plenty of corporate authoritarian imperatives for why they don't. This comment is a thought experiment to demonstrate their complicity in how their system is routinely abused.
We've had the capability to detect audio for a long time. What changed suddenly in the last few years to deploy/enforce this at scale? Certainly not any improvements to detection. I've made a whopping total of $46 in something like 12 years on these platforms. Something tells me this level of enforcement is ridiculous and against the spirit of the law, and I'm certainly not an expert on the DMCA or a lawyer, but I'd be willing to wager a lot that this strict interpretation is misinterpreted. No one is submitting any takedown requests to this content, which to be clear, averages like 1.3 viewers and has less than a few thousand follwers. And when I describe in-game audio - I mean literal 2-3 second song clips like "barbie girl" song happening when you score a goal in rocket league will get your VOD DMCA'd and you can't upload it to YT. That is a newer thing. You really can't view the last 20 years of DRM and the way it's played out, and say something like "this is how it's always been, now automation." That doesn't add up.
An observation with scientific paradigm shifts is that they tend not to reverse. Also the lingo someone commented on is that the fundamental problem is the different philosophical views of what knowledge is and can be. Either knowledge is base on symbols and rules like in mathematics or they are probabilities like in anything we actually can measure. Both these views can coexist and maybe AI will find the missing link between them some day. Possibly no human will grasp the link.
The detail on this thing is just insane. The amount of time and effort put in is comparable to what it takes to build an actual aircraft.

[UPDATE] Just to clarify: building an actual jetliner is obviously orders of magnitude harder than building this model. But I think building this model is probably comparable to building a light aircraft like this one: https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-14/
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There are robots that can do this now, they just cost $100k.
To quote Bill Clinton, "it's the economy, stupid". Or, rather, it's economics. AGI can go one of two ways in humanity's future:

1. We all need to work less because so many menial tasks are automated. We get more leisure time. Fewer than half of us probably have to work at all yet we all benefit to varying degrees by sharing in the rewards; or

2. The decreasing size of the required labor pool is used to further suppress wages and get more unpaid work from employees. Real wages plummet. Wealth inequality continues to skyrocket. There's a permanent underclass of people who will never work. They're given just enough to prevent putting heads on pikes. It's a dystopian future. Likely most of us won't own anything. We'll live in worker housing on the estates of the ultra-wealthy for what remaining tasks can't be automated. This is neofeudalism.

Which do you think is more likely? More to the point, which way we go is a matter of the organization of the economy.

A company like OpenAI simply cannot and will not bring up positive outcomes for the country or world at large. Just like the fable of the scorpion and the frog [1], it's in the nature of companies to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few.

We have a model for what works: the Wikimedia Foundation.

Put another way: the only sustainable path is for the workers to own the means of production.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Why would dust care about survival?
> What does it look like for fallible human minds to work on engineering an airplane? Things are calculated, recorded, checked, tested. People do not just sit there thinking and then spitting out their best guess.

People used to do this. The result was massively overbuilt structures, some of which are still with us hundreds of years later. The result was also underbuilt structures, which tended to collapse and maybe kill people. They are no longer around.

All of the science and math and process and standards in modern engineering is the solution humans came up with because our guesses aren't good enough. LLMs will need the same if they are to be relied upon.
It was fine until recently. Crossposting another reply:

> We've had the capability to detect audio for a long time. What changed suddenly in the last few years to deploy/enforce this at scale? Certainly not any improvements to detection. I've made a whopping total of $46 in something like 12 years on these platforms. Something tells me this level of enforcement is ridiculous and against the spirit of the law, and I'm certainly not an expert on the DMCA or a lawyer, but I'd be willing to wager a lot that this strict interpretation is misinterpreted. No one is submitting any takedown requests to this content, which to be clear, averages like 1.3 viewers and has less than a few thousand follwers. And when I describe in-game audio - I mean literal 2-3 second song clips like "barbie girl" song happening when you score a goal in rocket league will get your VOD DMCA'd and you can't upload it to YT. That is a newer thing. You really can't view the last 20 years of DRM and the way it's played out, and say something like "this is how it's always been, now automation." That doesn't add up.

I'm not exactly a big fish here. I don't make money. There is no takedown request, nor would there ever be, because it's silly.
Bug: url checker is case sensitive. For those of us that type out the url from memory on a stupid touch-type device with auto incorrect, you’ll get things like Http(s)://Github

Also might want to coalesce https and http

Not sure if it queues jobs for processing so that when I refresh after a failure it is continuing where it left off or if it is starting over anew? “Progress bar” makes it hard to say.

Aside: I dislike the “modern progress bar” that’s just a scrolling marquee of pithy quips. One of the difficult problems I worked on for a SW project was adding sane progress to a multi-stage backup tool so that the completed percentage and ETA correctly represented a mix of millions of single kb files and random multi-gb files, backed up across multiple pipelines on multiple cores, asynchronously piping from one stage to the next with buffering. Needed to add a good progress metric without poisoning cpu core caches or hurting the efficiency of how work was being divided. This doesn’t seem as hard by comparison!

Sorry for only having tangentially relevant things to report at this time; still waiting for it to finish with the fish-shell codebase so I can give some good feedback!
What do you think of copyright violations?
I did this for a while. I found a roll of heavy-duty aluminum foil (not quite pie-plate thick), and scavenged some old dot-matrix printers. Removing the ribbon, I printed text and low-res images on the foil. I inserted a roll containing my father's biography in the ashes of his funeral urn. Should be readable by archaeologists centuries from now.
>If Sam decided it was a mistake to dedicate his time to a non-profit, he’s perfectly free to quit [...]

To be clear, I don't think Sam can do anything and come out looking "good" from a public relations standpoint.

That said, Sam probably thinks he's justified because he was one of the original founders and co-chair of OpenAI -- so he feels he should have a say in pivoting it to something else. He said he got all the other donors on board ... except for Elon.

That leaves us with the messy situation today... Elon is the one filing the lawsuit and Sam is writing a PR blog post that's received as corporate doublespeak.
It is probably a both question. If 100x is the goal, they’ll have to double up the efficiency 7 times, which seems basically plausible given how early-days it still is (I mean they have been training on GPUs this whole time, not ASICs… bitcoins are more developed and they are a dumb scam machine). Probably some of the doubling will be software, some will be hardware.
A lot of this stuff is “doing something” to calm people down. People are losing their minds.

Where I live in upstate NY, Nextdoor.com was losing its shit over a “drone”, actually a lidar mapping plane, and some of the dumber people were suggesting taking shots at the Iranians.
To push something to the limit requires a lot of funding if public never got overexcited about some tech many really cool things would have never being tried. Also LLM are pretty useful even as is. It sure made me more productive.
They were jamming GPS long before the mistaken missile strike; it has nothing to do with this flight. (You can see it in the flight's ADS-B track, which disappears before they start descending and turning west into Grozny -- not after they were hit.) You can read malice into the diversion from local airports, or not; I'm not persuaded yet.
After watching Ben Eater's breadboard CPU series, I want nothing more than to design and emulate my own CPU.

I just wish I could find the time to sit down and design the damn thing.
I always find this to be a false dichotomy. I'm not sure what use cases are a good fit for generative AI models to tackle without human supervision. But there are clearly many tasks where the combination of generative AI with human direction is a big productivity boon.
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Inflation benifits the borrowers. Fist currency makes thing run smoothly when well managed, alternatives such as the gold standard have proven to be much worse that's why everyone switched
Finance, consulting and tech are gobbling up top students
Yes, they can down aircraft flying over their territory.

But downing an American aircraft right next to its fleet, shortly after takeoff, is not something I would imagine they could do.
In fact I suspect the public definition is a euphemistic take on the private one.
Yes but when that statement doesn't come with "and we're doubling all your salaries" then as an employee it doesn't really matter.

The double edge of most companies insulating employees from the actual business is that beyond the maintenance cost employees don't care that the business is doing well because, well, it doesn't affect them. But what does affect them is abandoning the company's values that made them sign on in the first place.
Is having 75% of your H1B visas from Indian nationals not a national security issue, a BRICS nation? https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/h-1b...
love this idea! here's ghostty: https://gitdiagram.com/ghostty-org/ghostty
Baku is actually slightly further than Aktau, according to Google maps.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Consult a bible
Nothing new there
Show HN: I built a free AI README.md generator
To be able to use WASM-compiled languages for embedding you first need a small WASM runtime you can depend on (and things like ref types, GC etc which have been standardized only in the last couple of years).

That didn't exist until recently, but now you can use https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime/blob/...

I am not aware of anyone using this yet, but I hope to see that become common in the next few years.
If you upload pictures of every room in your house to an LLM it can definitely tell you where the dishwasher is. If your argument is just that they cant walk around your house so they cant be intelligent I think thats pretty clearly wrong.
I don't remember if it had practical tips for finding/creating meaning in your life, but "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. Great book. He survived a concentration camp during the holocaust. The book is about how having meaning in life was a crucial part of his and other's survival. I highly recommend it.

Full disclosure: I think of finding meaning often, but have struggled with it. I suspect this has to do with my current situation and I hope to remedy that when it changes.

One more thing: if you're a man please find friends and build a community as you age. Many of us are terribly lonely once we reach a certain age. I believe working on my social and community life will help me find that meaning. Maybe that's the same for you.

Good luck!!
This may interest this audience, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41235789 An open-source flow battery kit - Aug 2024 - 108 comments
Would you let an LLM manage your financial affairs (entirely, unsupervised)?

Hmm I would not let other human manage my financial affairs entirely unsupervised.
With all respect and love to the OP, I must admit that I laughed out loud when I saw the AWS architectural diagram and wondered whether this might be a joke. Personally, I'd have implemented this as a few dozen lines of Python living as a cron job (or even as a long-lived process with a schedule), but I'm no pedigreed engineer.
Empirically, people can't manage even gamma properly, so imagining device dependent spatial orientation aware xforms seems like a stretch.
”Perhaps there needs to be a blockade in the Baltic.”

Yes. Controlling Kattegat traffic should be feasible which should give policy makers a fair range of options.
Current economic and political systems reward baseless confidence, believing you are better than others (and speaking and acting that way), and hubris.

So maybe it makes sense that our political and economic leaders have false confidence that "everything will be fine, it always has been for me".
This is why second opinions are widely used in any serious medical diagnosis.
Source to Prompt: Turn code projects into LLM prompts
And how long do you think it would take until the competitor would end up in the same situation? How can the god help with it? And which god?
Employees have equity. They all directly benefit from the company being worth more.
Also allegedly they were supposed to file an S Corp election. I've emailed them, but have no idea if I'll find out if it was actually sent.
It’s great at doing stuff that is routine, well-understood, done and documented and discussed many times before. “Boilerplate”. But also summarization, brainstorming, assisting a human unfamiliar with the body of knowledge.

It is bad at doing novel things or subtlety. For example when I ask for help with Postgres queries, LLMs frequently give me made-up syntax or combine features from several different databases like Oracle, MS-SQL, Postgres into a single answer.
The idea is really nice, but AWS sounds overkill? Using the same Python file with an Sqlite db (or a text file) and using an API like Mailgun to send the emails, it could run on any machine with a plain cron job?

I built a comparable system that sends me an email every day that I can respond to, to maintain a journal; it works like described above and has been running for about 5 years now with zero downtime.

Anyway the idea is really good!
They don't do taxes so not appealing to me. That was the main pain point Bench solved for me.
A software engineer that costs $20/month instead of $20k/month, and gets meaningfully more knowledgeable about every field on earth each year?
> Imagine if everyone did whatever they wanted all the time and cops had to go around physically corralling literally everyone at all times to maintain something vaguely resembling "order."

I don't need to imagine anything. I live on Earth in America and to my mind you've very accurately described the current state of human society.

For the vast majority of humans this is how it works currently.

The amount of government, military, and police and the capital, energy, and time to support all of that in every single country on earth is pretty much the only thing holding up the facade of "order" that some people seem to take for granted.
I heard this a lot before I started my career but IME this rarely pans out and you’re just stuck with broken software without documentation and source code.
Nobody has a right to an audience.

> Also, I'm from Europe. Which court should I go to when I infringe on an american dub copyright for a japanese cartoon, exactly?

Well the copyright and the site are American so probably America.